New Intel Tool Suite Simplifies Software Development For PDAs And Mobile Phones Using Intel® PCA Processors

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2004 - Intel Corporation today introduced Intel® C++ Software Development Tool Suite designed to help developers improve the performance of software running on hand-held devices.

The Tool Suite consists of a compiler and debugging tools. It supports application and system software development for devices using the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) processors running operating systems from Palm, Symbian, Nucleus and devices that are operating-system independent. The Tool Suite includes support for the next generation Intel PCA processor codenamed Bulverde, which is based on Intel XScale® Technology.

Software developers use compilers to translate a programming language, such as C++, into the machine language understood by the processor. A more efficient compiler results in better application performance. Intel's compilers are designed to help software developers deliver improved performance for their applications running on Intel® processor-based systems, from cell-phones and PDAs to database servers and super-computers.

"The Tool Suite represents an exciting new chapter for Intel," said Jon Khazam, general manager of Intel's Software Products Division. "This is the first compiler and set of debugging tools we've offered for the Palm, Symbian and Nucleus operating systems, and, like all our tools, it offers developers the potential for improved application performance."

The compiler in the Tool Suite offers some of the same compiler technology also available in Intel compilers for Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Xeon™ and Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, such as support for interprocedural optimization, which can speed application performance.

The Tool Suite includes the Intel® C++ Compiler for Intel® PCA Processors, version 1.2, and debugging tools. They support the mobile Intel® Wireless MMX™ Technology, which provides capabilities to improve graphical, audio and video performance on mobile phones and PDAs. They also support Intel® PCA processor-based handheld and mobile devices that use Palm OS v5.x or Nucleus OS v1.13 operating systems or that are OS-independent (there is debugger support only for devices using the Symbian operating system). The debugger provides in-depth views into Intel XScale® Technology which can be useful for low-level driver and application development.

The new Tool Suite is available from and supported by EPI, Inc., and Sophia Systems Ltd. The suggested retail price is $2,999 for a single-user subscription, which includes one year of support. More information is available at www.intel.com/software/products, EPI Inc., (www.epitools.com ) or Sophia Systems (www.sophia.com).

"We are pleased to offer the Intel® C++ Software Development Tool Suite as a significant addition to our Virtual.One.Stop™ Development Tools for devices using Intel® PCA processors," said Claude Chalouhi, vice president of worldwide sales at EPI. "EPI's focused expertise on Intel XScale® Technology, combined with our end-to-end tools solutions, allows customers to shorten their design time and increase their overall efficiency."

"We are very happy to be working with Intel and reselling the Intel® C++ Software Development Tool Suite," said Tasuka Kashihira, chief executive officer of Sophia Systems Co. Ltd. "We continue to fully support Intel XScale® Technology with state of the art development tools that, together with the Intel Tools Suite, provide a total embedded solution to engineers developing with Intel® PXA2xx processors."

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